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Thermal Science and Engineering Progress is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 7.7), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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ISSN 2451-9049Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Cost to publish: About US$3,000 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes | 13 / 99 | 87th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2017–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 7.7.
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress is Q1 in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes (rank 13 of 99), by CiteScore 2025.
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 7.7, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.986, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 78.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,000 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress is published by Elsevier Ltd. Its ISSN is 2451-9049.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress has an h-index of 86 and a 2-year mean of 4.31 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 7.7, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #13 of 90 Scopus journals in Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes.
Thermal Science and Engineering Progress published 1,260 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 79 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (44.9%), Iran (7%) and South Korea (6.6%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 154 retracted papers are recorded (33 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 17 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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